sedum

From Middle English cedum, from Latin sedum (“houseleek”). Modern usage is a semantic loan from translingual Sedum.

sedum (plural sedums)

1. Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop.

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• DEMUs, Demus, mused

Borrowed from Latin sedum (“houseleek”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː.dʏm/

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• Hyphenation: se‧dum

sedum n or m (plural sedums, diminutive sedumpje n)

1. synonym of vetkruid (“stonecrop, succulent plant of genus Sedum”)

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛ.dũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.d̪um]

sedum n (genitive sedī); second declension

1. The houseleek

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Translingual: Sedum

sēdum

1. genitive plural of sēdēs

• “sedum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sedum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.